Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:50:20 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andy Eskilsson <x-aes AT telelogic DOT se>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Long commandline exchange with win32 apps??
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On 23 Apr 1997, Andy Eskilsson wrote:

> I am working with both win32-compiled console apps, and djgpp
> apps.. the problem is for example when I in a win32 port of zsh do a
> (djgpp) ls *(that expands to many files) the commandline gets cut
> after about 119 characters..
> 
> I notice the same behaviour when trying to launch win32apps from bash
> compiled with djgpp..

DJGPP programs have their own way of passing long command lines.
There is no reason to expect win32 apps to know about that way and be
compatible with it.

> Is it possible to make these two application types to work happily
> together? or am I fumbling far off in the dark?

You can try teaching the win32 ports about DJGPP response files.

> I know the dos-limitations, but windows 95 doesn't seem to e
> these(?) limitations,

DJGPP doesn't support the Windows 95 way of passing command lines
longer than 126 characters.  Feel free to get the DJGPP library
sources and add such support.